The 57-year-old van driver admitted to throwing the object on the pitch but claimed it was not racially motivated.

However, on Tuesday, Panteli who pleaded guilty has been banned for four years from football as well as fined £500, which includes a £100 uplift for the racial element, and told to pay £135 in costs.

"We find it was a targeted gesture to throw a banana skin after a goal was scored by a black player. We have in the circumstances found the racial element was there," Magistrate Mervyn Mandell said as per Sky Sports.